Ali Dogru is a Saudi Aramco Fellow and Chief Technologist of Computational Modeling Technology. His presentation at SC15 will cover examples for the giant reservoir models using billion plus elements, model calibration to historical data, challenges, current status, and future trends in computational modeling in reservoir modeling. There is a preview on the SC15 blog.
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The Oberlin Review reports on the supercomputer installed by the Oberlin College. The College installed SCIURus in May 2015, replacing the Science Center's previous supercomputer, Beowulf, from 2005. After a month of assembly and a summer of beta testing, the computer cluster consists of nearly 200 terabytes of storage and 36 processors, each with 256 gigabytes, Melissa Harris reports in the Oberlin Review.
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